jolux

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by jolux 5y ago
Not looking for advice, thanks :)
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by jolux 5y ago
> what kind of person loses things so often that they need to buy trackers? Ever hear of ADHD? When I was younger I used to lose my wallet multiple times a week. These days it still happens every month or so. Trackers give me peace of mi
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by jolux 5y ago
You’re just assuming a lot of stuff I didn’t say. I have a lot of respect for your perspective on software and always love hearing from more experienced programmers. I think universal tools are great for a lot of stuff, but they’re just not
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by jolux 5y ago
I'm not talking about beginning programmers, I'm talking about people who are new to your language community. You can still just install and use ocamlc/ocamlopt, or rustc, or ghc, but the bar has been raised. People picking u
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by jolux 5y ago
That's the process for building and installing packages though. I'm talking about writing new ones, on a system with nothing else installed. I'm omnivorous but I get paid for web development and that's what most people I
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by jolux 5y ago
>Now if you're saying that the autotools/make/cmake/meson tooling is hard, I sort of agree That's not really the main problem to me but it is a problem. >many people are familiar with C build tools already May
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by jolux 5y ago
There appears to be a rough consensus but it seems to have emerged relatively recently. I learned OCaml about two or three years ago and at the time the best tooling was Tuareg and Merlin in Emacs. Fortunately for me I love Emacs, but I fou
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by jolux 5y ago
Templates have been in C++ for a very long time, like 30 years iirc. I am not a big C++ gal but I'm pretty sure TMP long predates C++11.
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by jolux 5y ago
You roll your own build system instead of using the built-in tools and you don't understand why people wouldn't want to do that? This isn't a typical situation in Rust or even Haskell these days. Come on. Rarely are people ar
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by jolux 5y ago
It's not really all that popular. Certainly not compared to C#.
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by jolux 5y ago
Ruby got big because of Rails specifically.
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by jolux 5y ago
I find a lot of Aphex danceable though, especially the first album and Classics (Analogue Bubblebath!)
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by jolux 5y ago
I'm not denying that programmers get paid a lot or that our taxes shouldn't be higher but it's a different situation from being a doctor or a lawyer. I have no degree and am entirely self-taught. I would not be able to practi
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by jolux 5y ago
I believe Aphex Twin's label Rephlex called it braindance originally. I've always liked their description: "braindance is the genre that encompasses the best elements of all genres, e.g traditional, classical, electronic musi
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by jolux 5y ago
Or they added it because a lot of people like you have misconceptions. Either way they would be rejected applying for unemployment. I’ve seen restaurant owners saying they can’t hire people, I haven’t seen restaurant owners saying people qu
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by jolux 5y ago
Do you expect everyone to pay the same amount of taxes?
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by jolux 5y ago
So they didn’t quit, they were furloughed or laid off? Why the hell does the employer expect those people to come back? They shouldn’t have stopped paying them in the first place.
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by jolux 5y ago
Sure but I would say that’s a fairly good reason to quit your job, what do we expect people to do in those scenarios? Live on nothing?
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by jolux 5y ago
This is not true, the DoL addresses this question specifically: https://www.dol.gov/coronavirus/unemployment-insurance See the answer to “My employer has remained open because it is essential. I’m not sick, nor is anyo
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by jolux 5y ago
You should try it some time. It’s not fun.
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by jolux 5y ago
You’d rather be collecting welfare than making $150k?
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by jolux 5y ago
You don’t get unemployment if you quit.
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by jolux 5y ago
Exactly, it’s important to remember the overall recidivism rate is much lower than the US’s. Unfortunately I think some amount of crime is inevitable and is ultimately reflective of societal development or lack thereof. When you get to mult
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by jolux 5y ago
So you’re saying people who have committed a crime more than once tend to commit crimes more than once? This doesn’t sound particularly surprising.
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by jolux 5y ago
I’ve been getting into stoicism lately and finding it enormously therapeutic. I don’t even know if it’s the philosophy itself as much as it is knowing that other human beings have been struggling with the same questions I have for thousands
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by jolux 5y ago
Where are you getting the data that recidivism rates are close to 100%?
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by jolux 5y ago
I don’t think masochism is inherently negative and I did not mean to insult. For that I apologize. I was trying to characterize in a humorous fashion a difference between what I perceive to be the stated aims of the language and the experie
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by jolux 5y ago
It’s definitely nice to have the imperative constructs but spending a lot of time with pure languages has changed my perspective on mutability. I think Rust mostly fits it, data is immutable by default in Rust.
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by jolux 5y ago
> In either case, neither of these excuses are pertinent to the community's rejection of complex comprehensions or higher order functions. I can only assume you haven’t done a lot of functional programming because Python is just not
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by jolux 5y ago
Rust’s syntax is definitely complicated and that’s one of my least favorite things about it but it’s extremely consistent. What gives you the “all over the place” feeling?

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